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Adcock, Fleur

Oxford University Press

The scenic route

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The Inner Harbour

History & Criticism

Oxford Univ. Pr.

In her eagerly awaited new collection, Fleur Adcock writes of incidents ranging from childhood experiences and family events to premonitions of death under the shadow of nuclear war.  Her astringent wit and brilliant style  cannot conceal the depth of her concern for what she values in a vulnerable world.

The Incident Book (Oxford Paperbacks)

British & Irish

Well known as a poet in her own right, and as a translator, Fleur Adcock's new collection is both varied and lively. Her subjects ranges from domestic matters: recalling the birth of her son some years back; remembering her father, the news of whose death in New Zealand reaches her, the expatriate in England; working in her own London garden; to more trenchant matters of contemporary concern, such as the Romanian bid for freedom in 1989, and support for Green causes, including the anti-nuclear stand. Her mordant wit is mixed with great technical grace in this, her first collection since The Incident Book in 1986.

Time-Zones (Oxford Poets)

In the first part of this book, her first since Time Zones (OUP, 1991), poet Fleur Adcock looks at some of her ancestors, from relatively recent figures struggling with hardship and family tragedies in 19th-century Manchester, through rural lives in Midlands villages, to a few prominent heroes and villains in Elizabethan and medieval times. In the second section she returns to more contemporary subjects, such as sex and dreaming--familiar topics of this unsettled but unsparing poet.

Looking Back (The ^AOxford Poets)

A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock’s grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. When things didn’t work out as they had hoped much of the responsibility for running the farm and engineering their eventual escape fell on their teenage son, Adcock’s father. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community. The Land Ballot is at once a moving family memoir, an extraordinary act of historical imagination, and a dazzling sequence of poems.

The Land Ballot

Victoria University Press

Wonderful verse translations of medieval Latin lyrics.

The Virgin & the Nightingale: medieval Latin lyrics

Bloodaxe Books

A land ballot was the means by which Fleur Adcock's grandparents, immigrants from Manchester during World War I, were able to bid for a piece of native bush on the slopes of Mount Pirongia in the North Island of New Zealand. Their task was to turn this unpromising acreage into a dairy farm. This sequence of poems follows the course of their efforts and builds up a portrait of a small, isolated community.

Brings together poems Fleur Adcock had to keep under wraps because they didn't suit the themes of her last two collections, The Land Ballot and Glass Wings. Here are reflections on the tools of her trade (handwriting, typewriters), snatches of autobiography (a brief, ill-considered second marriage followed by her migration from New Zealand to England in 1963), and poems on trees, wildlife and everyday objects. The most recent poems in the book recall Adcock's visits around the North Island of New Zealand in 2015, affirming her renewed although not uncritical affection for the country of her birth.

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Tigers

The scenic route

The Inner Harbour

The Incident Book (Oxford Paperbacks)

Time-Zones (Oxford Poets)

Looking Back (The ^AOxford Poets)

The Land Ballot

The Virgin & the Nightingale: medieval Latin lyrics

The Land Ballot

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